ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. Then, compare any change in the awareness metrics you’re measuring in that region with other markets.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2020

In this article, I walk you through a framework—the SEO pyramid—and how to think about keyword research for B2B SaaS businesses. point of sale software”); however, that usually isn’t where the most opportunity is. This is what the framework is designed for—to help you spot your biggest SEO opportunities. What is the SEO pyramid?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

With over a decade of experience in his toolkit, he specializes in helping clients build out cross-channel acquisition systems using a mix of owned, earned and paid tactics. 07:17] What is you cross-channel acquisition strategy? [11:13] 17:30] How deep into financials and metrics do you get before taking a client on? [19:01]

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ? I gave my boilerplate answer, “I’m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics. Dave McClure has some great metrics…” It was an honest but vaguely unsatisfying answer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

17:07] I’m seeing more and more agencies talk about growth through acquisition – is that a good way to grow? Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell or just peek at the latest sales news. You can spend on as a risk without putting you outside of the metric. Is that fraught with lots of challenges? [19:44]

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Although the company created an incentive plan to boost sales, its sales growth fell from 19% before the recession to 8% after—five percentage points below Staples’ postrecession sales growth rate. Frameworks for businesses during a crisis. Each study, however, offers a framework to help with decision making.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Agencies looking to grow have traditionally relied on fostering strategic relationships to land deals and increase sales. The same goes for your sales conversations; why did new leads seek you out, and what objections do you hear during the sales process? Cold email and referrals have often been quite effective.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 23, 2021

If they’re the kind of infinite learner who uses their past experiences to make their decision-making better, they have a huge advantage when it comes to everything from hiring to strategy to sales, making them an even better bet the second time around. Those experiences led me to refine my decision-making framework.

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

By focusing intently on a single measurement, known as a north star metric. The sales platform is intensely devoted to nurturing its monthly active users (MAU). The north star metric defines success for the whole company and aligns teams on a growth trajectory. What is a north star metric and why does it matter?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

The world does not need a new business framework. seconds)" for business framework on Google today. But most of the frameworks available to us solve for divisional silos. Most of the frameworks we have also don't optimally capture the complexity of digital marketing and measurement. Why build a framework?

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 8, 2023

The marketing funnel is a strategic framework that guides prospects through different stages of the buyer’s journey, from initial awareness to making a purchase decision. Identifying ROI Metrics for Each Funnel Stage To maximize ROI with the marketing funnel, it’s essential to measure the right metrics at each stage.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. It's as simple as that, and that is what metrics are to me. They said sales and marketing.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

How does retention differ among different acquisition channels? Here’s Lincoln Murphy from Sixteen Ventures explaining: Lincoln Murphy: There are lots of ways to leverage cohort analysis, but one of my favorites is as inputs for your Ideal Customer Profile framework. Acquisition Efficiency. Expansion Potential.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

The book is part of the Startup Revolution series that Brad has been working on for a couple years now, including Do More (Even) Faster , Venture Deals , Startup Communities , and Startup Life (with two more to come, Startup Boards and Startup Metrics). What About Sales & Marketing?, Writing a book is a LOT harder than I expected!

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

same thing as growth hacker or growth marketer): “The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell. There’s lot of overlap, but what it comes down to is metrics and goals. Product vs. Growth?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

And if you are in SaaS, you could certainly work also with the AARRR framework designed by Dave McClure : Image Source. Acquisition segments. Acquisition segments. This is a correlative metric – a behavioral cohort used as a heuristic for growth. Most refer to these correlative metrics as Wow Moments or Aha moments.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Both of these bodies of work and frameworks for thinking about startups fit really well for funded startups who plan to shoot the moon (launch the rocket to escape velocity and go as far and fast as possible). Tortoises don’t have to hire god’s gift to sales, they can hire someone with potential who can grow in the role. and they will.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. For a startup, having great sales DNA is a wonderful asset. This is the magic of sales: by learning about each customer in-depth, they can convince each of them that this product would solve serious problems. But here’s where a truly great sales artist comes in.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Today, a lot of the PLG SaaS tools require sales motion upfront because nobody understands those tools. Those types of tools actually require work in the initial days of the sales motion. The success of the foundation is can you get to the first PLG conversion and actually have a user or prospective customer without talking to sales?

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2009

We are part of the Web Sales division, along with an e-commerce (online media) team and the content crew. Web Sales is considered a channel in the same way our call-centre, local branches and customer account managers are. The four pronged real world tested probing and loaded with politics framework to find a home for Web Analytics: 1.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Use frameworks in interviews to explain your qualifications and show your thought-processes. In my roadmapping workshop I often use ‘ now, next, later’ as a framework. Tailor resumes and cover letters for product manager job applications to each specific role. Galyen cautions that many PMs get stuck inside what he calls “four walls.”

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Jobs-to-be-done framework (JTBD) was invented by economist Clayton Christensen and is a great way to identify user intent for a topic and define the right features. For many inventory-driven sites, the JTBD framework is a better alternative to personas. To merge this emotional context with the JTBD framework, use needs as filters.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

The message, the customer data, the ability to reach current and prospective customers, drive new sales as well as repeat sales, experiment with new ideas and offers, and so much more. You must use metrics that are unique to the medium. Ready for the best email marketing campaign metrics? Because you control everything.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

Everyone has railed against these practices ( including us , many times), but it still seems that much of the industry is focused on short term metrics and surface level changes. More and more, people are using experimentation as a way to optimise not just sales – but also pricing, functionality, and product.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Some see it as a sales tactic, while others view it as a content marketing strategy. Account-based marketing is an approach where marketing and sales work together to nurture target accounts and convert or retain customers. It needs perfect alignment from sales, marketing, and executive leaders across the organization.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

To have the future we wanted, we needed to shift away from monetizing our open-data community and toward enterprise sales. While they knew that—and that might seem weird—I did start my career as a sales development representative (SDR) selling demand generation SaaS products. Honorable mention: The DemandGen Framework.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Despite our heroic intent, the lack of planning results in scattered messaging, inconsistent posting, and—drumroll please—a lack of reportable metrics! We’re not here to talk about vanity metrics such as likes, retweets, shares, and so on. Define your social media metrics. goal framework to create yours. See the S.M.A.R.T

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ConversionXL

JUNE 27, 2016

In case you’re unfamiliar with our conversion research framework, here’s a visual summary… Typically, when explaining web analytics analysis, I say it’s when you: “Conduct an analytics health check. This is why I find a much better indicator of success is the Page Value metric in Google Analytics.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

With the right framework, any startup can achieve this in their industry. Yet, in 2021, Shopify posted record sales, growing 113% year-over-year and doubling in brand value to $828 million. There’s no metric to measure customers’ emotional responses and what impact those subjective emotions have on your business.

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ConversionXL

JULY 25, 2022

Companies that engage in strategic CTA testing continue to drive success metrics like CTR (click-through rate) up and to the right. That action might be to: Download an ebook or guide; Sign up for a free trial; Register for an upcoming webinar; Browse products in your online store; Book a sales demonstration. What happens next?

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

I can report on pageviews and bounce rates and sessions and all the other lovely metrics we normally obsess about. Now, all those other metrics suddenly have a purpose and context. Hence, analytics framework to represent end-to-end business measurement is called Acquisition – Behavior – Outcomes.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Some 74% of optimizers with a structured approach to conversion also claim improved sales. Define your target metrics. To do this, we recommend the ResearchXL Framework. It also helps to have a framework. There are many frameworks to prioritize your A/B tests, and you could even innovate with your own formula.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 31, 2017

There is only one simple message above, and just two metrics that matter. Shows the key time-periods, start and end dates of each media recommendation, and leverages the See-Think-Do-Care business framework to give each media effort a purpose. It can be any of the numerous brand metrics avilable to us. It is natural.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

The key is to connect user research to an improved user experience and, in turn, an increase in customer retention, leads, or any other metric for which C-suite members are accountable. According to that same NNG research: Ecommerce sites can expect to double their sales. User research is the foundation for those gains.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

And after some number of opens, clicks, and visits, we’d go in for the hard sale—a phone call from a sales rep, an office visit to provide a demo, and some kind of “buy now or else” discount on pricing. Metrics for this depth are rare and only long-term. How Atlassian used the conceptual, strategic, and tactical frameworks .

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

Custom reports allow you to deeply focus (by eliminating the rif-raf metrics and dimensions, they save time and show just what you want). The include single custom reports that replace all/most current standard reports in GA on Mobile, Content, Paid Search and Acquisition. Key Metrics: Map Overlay Visualization. Seven more!

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